Re: Why does perltidy mess up whitespace before inline comments and equals?

[LanX]

Could you please be more specific about what you consider "unexpected changes" and what your desired output looks like?

your option -nolc mentions comments, searching the docs for -nolc shows

-olc, --outdent-long-comments

    When -olc is set, lines which are full-line (block) comments longe
+r than the value maximum-line-length will have their indentation remo
+ved. This is the default; use -nolc to prevent outdenting.

so what is your question?

[will_]

Rolf, I would expect those lines not to change at all.
Eily, thanks -msc pointed me in the right direction.

After some more experimenting, I've found that this code:

    $d->{status} = 'queued'; # something
    $d->{description} = 'The action'; # other thing
    $d->{id} = '12345'; # Identifies action

gets changed to this:

    $d->{status}      = 'queued';     # something
    $d->{description} = 'The action'; # other thing
    $d->{id}          = '12345';      # Identifies action

...which is definitely better in that case.

But even if only the last line had a comment and I use -msc=1:

    $d->{status} = 'queued';
    $d->{description} = 'The action';
    $d->{id} = '12345'; # Identifies action

...it still pushes the comment way out to the right to align with some non-existent other comments. That's not necessary.

    $d->{status}      = 'queued';
    $d->{description} = 'The action';
    $d->{id}          = '12345';     # Identifies action


Setting -ols/-nolc don't seem to have any effect on this.

And now I've found what I was looking for:


-ssc -sscp=#

This sets "static side comments", and sets the identifier for those to the usual # character

docs: http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/perltidy.html#static_side_comments

This lines up the equals but leaves the comments alone. The only time the equals doesn't get lined up is if that would make the line longer than the -l setting, which is fair enough.